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Zhang, L. ; Lehmann, K.* ; Totsche, K.U.* ; Lueders, T.

Selective successional transport of bacterial populations from rooted agricultural topsoil to deeper layers upon extreme precipitation events.

Soil Biol. Biochem. 124, 168-178 (2018)

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Substantial amounts of organic matter are mobilized from upper soil layers during extreme precipitation events. This results in considerable fluxes of carbon from plant-associated topsoil to deeper mineral soil and to groundwater. Microbes constitute an important part of this mobile organic matter (MOM) pool. Previous work has shown that specific bacteria associated with the rhizosphere of decaying maize roots were selectively transported with seepage water upon snowmelt in winter. However, effective mechanisms of mobilization and also possible distinctions to microbial transport for living root systems remain poorly understood. In the present study, bacteria in seepage water were sampled from lysimeters at an experimental maize field after extreme rain events in summer. We show that a distinctive subset of rhizoplane-associated bacterial populations was mobilized after summer rain, especially including abundant members of the Bacteroidetes, representing a microbial conduit for fresh plant-derived carbon inputs into deeper soil layers. Marked distinctions of seepage communities were not observed between lysimeters with a different relative contribution of preferential vs. matrix flow. Time resolved analyses of seepage water during an artificial rain event revealed temporal patterns in the mobilization of certain lineages, with members of the Chitinophagaceae, Sphingomonadaceae, and Bradyrhizobiaceae preferentially mobilized in early and late seepage fractions, and members of the candidate phyla Parcubacteria and Microgenomates mobilized mostly in intermediate fractions. While average bacterial cell counts were at similar to 10(7) ml(-1) in seepage water, the recovery of amended fluorescently labeled cells of Arthrobacter globiformis was low (0.2-0.6%) over seepage events. Still, mobilized bacteria clearly have the potential to influence bacterial activities and communities in subsoils. These findings demonstrate that dynamic hydraulic events must be considered for a better understanding of the connectivities between microbial populations and communities in soil, as well as of the links between distinct carbon pools over depth.

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Publication type Article: Journal article

Document type Scientific Article

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Keywords Natural Rain ; Artificial Rain ; Preferential Flow ; Seepage Water ; Soil Bacterial Communities; Unsaturated Porous-media; Fluorescent Staining Method; Organic-matter; Rhizosphere Colonization; Solution Chemistry; Substrate Quality; Soil; Plant; Diversity; Microorganisms

ISSN (print) / ISBN 0038-0717

e-ISSN 1879-3428

Journal Soil Biology & Biochemistry

Quellenangaben Volume: 124, Pages: 168-178

Publisher Elsevier

Publishing Place Amsterdam

Non-patent literature Publications

Reviewing status Peer reviewed

Institute(s) Institute of Groundwater Ecology (IGOE)